I want to have a lucid dream

Hi guys, I've never had a lucid dream before and I've never even heard of it until this morning. I've looked at the different methods, and I'm a little bit confused. What should I do to have a lucid dream tonight?

Welll i started becoming lucid much faster than most people...but my technique is to stare at my hands for a few minutes before i close my eyes...so while you lay on your back with hands in the air...stare at them then close your eyesand imagine your hands in the dream....thats how i start my dreams.

Start a dream journal, learn to do rc's, try autosuggestion, then proceed to try DILDing DEILDing WILDing SSILDing or if your lazy EILDing.

Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming. This is a very handy guide that should teach you most of the basics. You'll learn a lot from it. :)

The first step is to remember your dreams. How many dreams do you remember per week?

Your best hope of having one asap is a long WBTB. I'd get about 7 hours of sleep, then wake up and stay up for 30 minutes to an hour. When you go back to sleep as fast as you can, tell yourself, "I am about to go into a dream, when I see myself in a place other than my bed falling asleep I will recognize it as a dream". Now dream recall helps a lot here. If your brain isn't very familiar with the state your chances will be lower. If you record your dreams, your brain will be able to categorize these night time experiences, and associate them with the possibilities of lucidity.

EPLD? Maybe?

Sleep deprivation, erratic sleep patterns, lifestyle changes...these things will greaten the chance for a lucid dream or sleep paralyis to occur. Not very practical obviously. And of course there's a healthier way.
Dream journals are not a necessity. So it is possible to experience a lucid dream tonight. If you want to get into the lucid dream thing you'll have to dedicate a little bit of your time and prepare yourself mentally.
Suppose you have an important meeting or something else you're either excited or nervous for and you have to wake-up in the middle of the night for it. Sometimes if something is so important, it's hard to get it off our memory.
We might even start dreaming about it and wake-up and say to ourselfs: "Oh it was a dream". This is similar to lucid dreaming. What I'm trying to say is think of lucid dreaming as something important. Something you wish to achieve.
Make it a prioritized goal. This might not be a very wise thing to do if there's really something important to do or have to attend to the next day / days. For ex. school exams should always be your first priority.
Do this when you're absolutely sure you have nothing else to stress over. You can do some meditation to clear your mind of clutter and other things if you wish before going to sleep.
Next thing you'll know, when you're dreaming you'll realize the "importance" of having a lucid dream. This is when it occurs, you woke up inside your dream, way to go.
Hope this'll help you. Happy dreaming!

PS: Sorry for any mistakes. English is not my native language.

There are many ways to start it, but like a few have mentioned, the best way to start is to work on increasing your recall so you can remember your dreams. Because if you ever have a lucid, it would suck if you didn't even remember it upon waking, right?
No one person is the same when it comes to LDing, so after working on increasing your recall a bit (keeping a dream journal, eating certain foods, drinking certain drinks, trying to remember upon waking), the next step would be to experiment with different methods, such as DILD, WILD, or MILD. Just try different techniques out for a week or two and see which one works better for you. They all have their pros and cons, and you can find those on various sections of this website that talk about each technique. ^^ Just study up on the different methods, and figure out which works best. Once you start having lucids, you can work on things like stabilizing and dream control. (: And as Caenis mentioned, the Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming is super helpful for just starting out.

I Tried every way on this thing to get lucid dreams simply because I could not make myself do a reality check and they didnt work (for me that is) I have mountains of recordings and supplements that dont work (for me) I do give fish oil pills and the vitamin B6 credit but most of the supplements are already in my refrigerator
I read every page of every lucid site before I finally landed here also. With so much conflicting stuff I got lost in it all and had to settle on what appeared to be the most informational site. I wake up anyways about 3 am and spend maybe 30 minutes awake doing this and having a snack before going back to bed, Hope it helps.
One way I developed myself is to simply open a notebook page on this junk and type "I am dreaming, I am dreaming" quickly as you can about 50 times before going to bed and then just saying it to myself a few times and go to sleep, Dont say it until the end because it will keep you awake until the end, This got me to the dream already lucid although it took time to recognize it, The power of suggestion !
Remembering it and doing something with it is another matter. Listen to the pros on here when it comes to that.
I have graduated to typing I will remember my dream about 50 times now and that works too and I keep a digital recorder in my bed to record them as soon as I wake up as they are flighty things. For maintaining them or controlling them however I still have a long way to go,
Just my 2 cents worth.

Buy Stephen LeBerges book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams (EWLD). It gives you all the basic knowledge. I had an LD within 3 days starting to read it. After you know the basics this forum is fantastic, but EWLD sort of organizes the concepts for you.